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The Hellenic Army General Staff and the Institute of International Relations organized its 2nd Land Forces Conference in Vari, Greece, between September 27th and 28th, 2018. The topic of the conference was: “Multi-Domain Battle and the Role of Land Forces”. The ICMH President, Massimo de Leonardis, delivered the key-note speech on "The Role of Land Forces in Joint and Combined Operations: Lessons from the Past and a Look to the Future". You can download the full text below.

At unanimity of votes, the Jury of the Corvisier Prize choose Mr. Maxime Petitjean’s dissertation as the laureate of the 2018 edition of the Corvisier Prize. The members of the jury de soutenance de thèse unanimously agreed about the importance of the work of Mr. Petitjean, which, when published, will be a fundamental volume on the subject.

The International Commission of Military History awards the André Corvisier Prize for PhD theses on Military History, named after the distinguished French scholar who was for ten years President of ICMH and then President of Honour. For the 2019 edition, the prize will be awarded for a PhD thesis discussed and approved in 2018 in a recognized University.

The ICMH will participate to the Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences, to which is affiliated, in Poznan in August 2020. Close contacts with the International Commission of History of International Relations produced the proposal, accepted by ICHS, of joint panels of six scholars for each Commission on the general subject Disarmament and Rearmament after the World Wars in the XX century.